Re: XCatalog proposal draft 0.1

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:28:44


At 12:20 10/07/98 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>This is a proposal for XCatalogs, a system based on SGML/Open
>catalogs (Socats) for translating public identifiers to
>system identifiers in XML.

I haven't read this in detail, but support the idea. I had to write some
catalog software before XML and found it remarkable that SGML could have so
many different syntaxes for a single language:
- declaration
- DTD
- catalog
- document instance
and
- stylesheet (though this wasn't standardised anyway).

If we can reduce the syntax to one, great.

P.

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